Athena in 2006
2006 was 98% worth living.
In 2005, Athena
did 49 things,
went 28 places,
met 2 people, and
consumed 980 products.
Athena has written 3 year in review entries…
- My year in review — 1 year ago
- My year in review — 1 year ago
- My year in review — 7 months ago
January
Read:
- The Witches (Puffin Novels) — Worth consuming!
- Himalaya — Worth consuming!
- The Lovely Bones: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Cat's Cradle — Worth consuming!
- The Best American Travel Writing 2004 (The Best American Series (TM)) — Worth consuming!
- Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books — Worth consuming!
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — Worth consuming!
- The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country — Worth consuming!
- Honeymoon with My Brother : A Memoir
- The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Myths) — Worth consuming!
- A Million Little Pieces — Worth consuming!
- Home Rules: Transform the Place You Live into a Place You'll Love — Worth consuming!
- The Three Incestuous Sisters: An Illustrated Novel — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Harold and Maude — Worth consuming!
- Heathers — Worth consuming!
- The Bridge on the River Kwai — Worth consuming!
- Belle de Jour — Worth consuming!
- Arsenic and Old Lace — Worth consuming!
- A Life Less Ordinary — Worth consuming!
- March of the Penguins (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Pump up the Volume — Worth consuming!
- Clerks (Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
- Trop Belle Pour Toi (Original French ONLY Version) — Worth consuming!
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (Two-Disc Special Edition)
- Live in Lille — Worth consuming!
- Separate Tables
Consumed:
- Water — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
→ See more from January
February
Added to 43 Things:
- Volunteer — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- get a passport — Worth doing!
- stop drinking soda — Worth doing!
Read:
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — Worth consuming!
- Gathering Blue (Readers Circle) — Worth consuming!
- Living to Tell the Tale — Worth consuming!
- The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists — Worth consuming!
- The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You — Worth consuming!
- The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake — Worth consuming!
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores — Worth consuming!
- The Girl With the Silver Eyes (Apple Paperbacks)
- The Leopard — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Out of Africa — Worth consuming!
- Mad Hot Ballroom — Worth consuming!
- Mulan II — Not worth consuming
- Indochine
→ See more from February
March
Added to 43 Things:
- share quotes — completed 9 months later
- learn pilates — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- learn to drive — Not worth doing
Visited on 43 Places:
- Chateau Frontenac — Worth visiting!
- Mont Royal — Worth visiting!
- Botanical Gardens — Worth visiting!
- Vieux-Port — Worth visiting!
- La Basilique Notre-Dame — Worth visiting!
- Canadian Museum Of Civilization — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
Read:
- A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines — Worth consuming!
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) — Worth consuming!
- One Hundred Years of Solitude — Worth consuming!
- Brave New World — Worth consuming!
- The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
- Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery) — Worth consuming!
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Ordinary People
- Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Bridget Jones's Diary — Worth consuming!
- Three Musketeers, The : An Abridgement by Lord Sudley (Puffin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- James and the Giant Peach — Worth consuming!
- Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
- Matilda — Worth consuming!
- The Twits — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- The Joshua Tree — Worth consuming!
- The Beatles 1 — Worth consuming!
- Revolver [UK] — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection) — Worth consuming!
- Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
- Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
- L.A. Confidential
- North by Northwest — Worth consuming!
- Sense and Sensibility — Worth consuming!
- Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
- Duck Soup — Worth consuming!
- The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Il Postino — Worth consuming!
- Casablanca — Worth consuming!
- The World Is Not Enough
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Titanic — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Sushi — Worth consuming!
- Chocolate — Worth consuming!
- Chai Latte — Worth consuming!
- dark chocolate — Worth consuming!
- BBQ'd Salmon — Worth consuming!
- jambalaya — Worth consuming!
- Pasta — Worth consuming!
- hummus — Worth consuming!
- Steak — Worth consuming!
- pure maple syrup — Worth consuming!
- Fresh fish — Worth consuming!
- Lobster — Worth consuming!
- Asian Cuisine — Worth consuming!
- Ice cream — Worth consuming!
- Chicago Style Pizza — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Lists of Bests — Worth consuming!
→ See more from March
April
Added to 43 Things:
- Floss Every Day — completed about 1 month later
- get contacts — completed 2 months later
- learn to draw
Completed on 43 Things:
- see coldplay live — Worth doing!
- Read more — Worth doing!
- get a massage — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Kraków — visited about 1 month later
- National Gallery Of Canada — visited 3 months later
- Poland — visited 3 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Winterlude — Worth visiting!
- Vieux Montreal — Worth visiting!
- Montreal's Summer Festivals — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
- The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
- Blindness (Harvest Book) — Worth consuming!
- Alias Grace: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- The Cat in the Hat
- Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books) — Worth consuming!
- The Prince
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin — Worth consuming!
- Goodnight Moon (Board Book)
- Watchmen — Worth consuming!
- The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections — Worth consuming!
- The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
- Thank You, Jeeves (Wodehouse, P. G. Collector's Wodehouse.)
- The Illiad
Watched:
- Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Widescreen Edition)
- Serendipity
- Gosford Park
- Spider-Man 2 (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
- Ray (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series)
- Ocean's Eleven (Widescreen Edition)
- Bowling for Columbine
- X2 - X-Men United (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
- Winged Migration — Worth consuming!
- American Graffiti / More American Graffitti (Drive-In Double Feature)
- Spellbound — Worth consuming!
- The Triplets of Belleville
- Super Size Me — Worth consuming!
- The Manchurian Candidate (Widescreen Edition)
Consumed:
→ See more from April
May
Added to 43 Things:
- knit a scarf — completed 20 days later
- Recapture the lost art of letter writing. — completed 16 days later
- Learn French, German or Swahili — completed 16 days later
- Listen to Mozart's Requieum without interruption — completed about 1 year later
- take more naps
Completed on 43 Things:
- Learn to knit — Worth doing!
- Try out 43 Things — Worth doing!
- Volunteer — Worth doing!
- compile a 100-things-about-me list — Worth doing!
- have dim sum for breakfast — Worth doing!
- Organize a food drive for the needy — Worth doing!
- Shake hands with someone famous — Worth doing!
- Spend the day with a toddler — Worth doing!
- Haggle... and win — Worth doing!
- attend a Catholic Mass
- watch Spinal Tap — Worth doing!
- send someone a "just thinking of you card" — Worth doing!
- take a walk in the summer rain — Worth doing!
- vote — Worth doing!
- find out what auld lang syne really means
Added to 43 Places:
- Plateau Mont Royal — visited about 1 month later
- Majdanek — visited about 1 month later
- Treblinka — visited about 1 month later
- Warszawa — visited about 1 month later
- Rynek Glowny — visited 9 months later
- Hong Kong International Airport — visited about 1 year later
- Vancouver International Airport — visited about 1 year later
- Ottawa International Airport — visited about 1 year later
- Montréal-Trudeau International Airport — visited about 1 year later
- Newark Liberty International Airport — visited about 1 year later
- Warsaw International Airport — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Kraków — Worth visiting!
- Lublin — Worth visiting!
- Częstochowa — Worth visiting!
- Jasna Gora — Worth visiting!
- Katowice — Worth visiting!
- Elizabeth — Not worth visiting
Read:
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
- The Three Musketeers (Oxford World's Classics) — Worth consuming!
- His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) — Worth consuming!
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Yearling Books) — Worth consuming!
- Many Waters — Worth consuming!
- The Virgin Suicides — Worth consuming!
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass — Worth consuming!
- Angela's Ashes: A Memoir — Worth consuming!
- The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives — Worth consuming!
- Middlesex — Worth consuming!
- Memoirs of a Geisha (Random House Large Print (Hardcover)) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Ghost World — Worth consuming!
- The Bridges of Madison County
- Fargo — Worth consuming!
- The Usual Suspects — Worth consuming!
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Worth consuming!
- Anything Else
- Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle (Full Screen Special Edition)
- Morocco
- Chasing Liberty (Widescreen Edition)
- La Cage Aux Folles — Worth consuming!
- Da Vinci Code
Consumed:
- Pumpkin Pie — Worth consuming!
- Bubble Tea — Worth consuming!
→ See more from May
June
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- knit a scarf — Worth doing!
- Recapture the lost art of letter writing. — Worth doing!
- Learn French, German or Swahili — Worth doing!
- Surf the net
- Floss Every Day — Worth doing!
- Skate on the Rideau Canal — Worth doing!
- get contacts — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
Read:
- 84, Charing Cross Road — Worth consuming!
- Chocolat
- Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History — Worth consuming!
- The Real Thing — Worth consuming!
- The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale — Worth consuming!
- 1984: Centennial Edition
- Ex Machina Vol. 1: The First Hundred Days — Worth consuming!
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Fast Food Nation — Worth consuming!
- Machiavelli's The Prince
- Ex Machina, Vol. 2: Tag — Worth consuming!
- The Kindly Ones (Sandman, Book 9) — Worth consuming!
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
- Rushmore — Worth consuming!
- Spider-Man (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Kill Bill, Volume 2 — Worth consuming!
- Garden State — Worth consuming!
- The NeverEnding Story
- The Matrix Reloaded (Widescreen Edition)
- The Last Unicorn
- The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Notebook (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
- Hotel Rwanda — Worth consuming!
- Bride and Prejudice — Worth consuming!
- Star Wars - Episode II, Attack of the Clones (Widescreen Edition)
- Men in Black II (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
→ See more from June
July
Added to 43 Things:
- knit mittens — completed 3 months later
- Give 1000 cheers
Completed on 43 Things:
- sudoku — Worth doing!
- identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money) — Worth doing!
- go to a rock concert
- volunteer for something — Worth doing!
- do yoga — Worth doing!
- read "to kill a mockingbird" — Worth doing!
- Donate blood — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Auschwitz-Birkenau — visited 29 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Plateau Mont Royal — Worth visiting!
- Cornwall — Worth visiting!
- Hong Kong — Worth visiting!
- Macau — Worth visiting!
- Byward Market — Worth visiting!
- National Gallery Of Canada — Worth visiting!
- Majdanek — Worth visiting!
- Treblinka — Worth visiting!
- Warszawa — Worth visiting!
- Poland — Worth visiting!
- Gatineau — Worth visiting!
Read:
- The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream — Worth consuming!
- Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
- War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
- Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) — Worth consuming!
- The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) — Worth consuming!
- The Gun Seller — Worth consuming!
- Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
- E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
- The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the RIngs)
- Confessions of a Shopaholic
- The "Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood (York Notes Advanced)
- White Oleander : A Novel
- The Alchemist
- Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition)
Listened to:
- Parachutes — Worth consuming!
- Room for Squares — Worth consuming!
- A Rush of Blood to the Head — Worth consuming!
- Heavier Things — Worth consuming!
- Last Night We Were the Delicious Wolves — Worth consuming!
- Lover / Fighter — Worth consuming!
- Almost a Full Moon — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Porco Rosso — Worth consuming!
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind — Worth consuming!
- Cowboy Bebop - The Movie — Worth consuming!
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Pride and Prejudice (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Howl's Moving Castle — Worth consuming!
- The Greatest Show on Earth
- A Star Is Born — Worth consuming!
- Last Tango in Paris
- Jezebel — Worth consuming!
- Good Night, and Good Luck (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Ugetsu - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Pride & Prejudice (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
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August
Visited on 43 Places:
- Auschwitz-Birkenau — Worth visiting!
Read:
- Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics) — Worth consuming!
- His Dark Materials — Worth consuming!
- The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library) — Worth consuming!
- Stardust — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Come Away with Me — Worth consuming!
- Hopes and Fears — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Wonder Boys
- High Fidelity — Worth consuming!
- Billy Elliot — Worth consuming!
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — Worth consuming!
- In America
- Spellbound - Criterion Collection
- Dirty Pretty Things
- House of Flying Daggers — Worth consuming!
- A Very Long Engagement
- The Quiet American
- The Iron Giant — Worth consuming!
- The Parent Trap (Vault Disney Collection)
- Witness — Worth consuming!
- The Magdalene Sisters
- Barefoot in the Park — Worth consuming!
→ See more from August
September
Read:
- The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh/WTP — Worth consuming!
- The Wind in the Willows — Worth consuming!
- Snow Crash. — Worth consuming!
- Night (Oprah's Book Club) — Worth consuming!
- A Passage to India (Everyman's Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
- Suite Française — Worth consuming!
- Self-made Man — Worth consuming!
- Mythic Tarot Deck and Book Set — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Abbey Road — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Calendar Girls — Worth consuming!
- The Time Machine
- Body Heat
- The Goodbye Girl
- The Complete Musketeers (The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers)
- The Lake House — Worth consuming!
- The Power of One
- Neil Young - Heart of Gold — Worth consuming!
- Veronica Mars - The Complete Second Season — Worth consuming!
→ See more from September
October
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- knit mittens — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Parry Sound — Worth visiting!
Watched:
- Underworld (Widescreen Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Save the Last Dance — Worth consuming!
- Balto
- Wallace & Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- All Dogs Go To Heaven
- Annie
- Nanny McPhee (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from October
November
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- The Tao of Pooh — Worth consuming!
- The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- A Walk to Remember — Not worth consuming
- Sloppy Firsts: A Novel — Worth consuming!
- The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
- Angels & Demons, Special Illustrated Edition
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Bridget Jones
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics)
- To Kill a Mockingbird — Worth consuming!
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
- Ex Machina Vol. 3: Fact v. Fiction — Worth consuming!
- George Bernard Shaw's Plays (Norton Critical Editions)
- The Nanny Diaries
Listened to:
- The Crane Wife — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Frank Herbert's Dune (TV Miniseries) (Director's Cut Special Edition)
- High Noon (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
- High Noon — Worth consuming!
- North & South — Worth consuming!
→ See more from November
December
Added to 43 Things:
- Finish my website — completed about 1 month later
- knit a clapotis — completed 4 months later
- knit socks — completed 7 months later
- grow my hair long — completed about 1 year later
- read every book I own
- Start a book of quotes that inspire me — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Buy a new computer — Worth doing!
- buy a digital camera — Worth doing!
- Participate in PostCrossing — Worth doing!
- stop eating fast food — Worth doing!
- Learn lucid dreaming — Worth doing!
- share quotes — Worth doing!
Read:
- The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
- Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition) — Worth consuming!
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
- The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories — Worth consuming!
- Emma — Worth consuming!
- Northern Lights (His Dark Materials)
- Stitch 'N Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook — Worth consuming!
- Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes — Worth consuming!
- French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure — Worth consuming!
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- the Shipping News
- Bridget Jones's Diary - A Novel — Worth consuming!
- Jude the Obscure (Dover Thrift Editions)
Listened to:
- London Calling — Worth consuming!
- Born to Run
- Kind Of Blue — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb — Worth consuming!
- Big Fish — Worth consuming!
- Rain Man — Worth consuming!
- Batman Returns — Worth consuming!
- Wallace & Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures — Worth consuming!
- Castle in the Sky — Worth consuming!
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure
- The Polar Express (Full Screen Edition)
- John Cleese - Wine for the Confused — Worth consuming!
- Vincent — Worth consuming!
- Jane Austen's Emma
- Beetle Juice
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Pianist — Worth consuming!
- X-Men - The Last Stand (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
